Joy Mangano was 33 and divorced(离婚), had three kids under age 7, and was hardly keeping up payments on her small two-bedroom home by working extra weekend hours as a waitress.

  “Sometimes I would lie in bed and think. I don’t know how I’m going to pay the bills,” Mangano said.

  But she had a gift for seeing the obvious. She knew how hard it was to mop the floor. “I was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water and wringing(拧)out a mop.” Mangano says. “So, I thought: There’s going to be a better way.”

  How about a “self wringing” mop? She designed a special tool that could be twisted(转动)in two directions while not making hands wet and dirty. She set out to sell it, first only a few at flea markets(跳蚤市场).

  Then Mangano met with the media. But would couch potatoes(泡在电视机前的人)buy a mop? The experts on shopping TV were less than certain. They gave it a try, and it failed. Mangano was sure it would sell if they’d let her do the on-camera demonstration.

  QVC took a chance on her. “I got onstage and the phones went crazy. We sold every mop in minutes.”

  Today she’s the president of Ingenious Designs, a multimillion-dollar company, and one of the stars of the Home Shopping Network. Talking about her household inventions is “as natural for me as it is for parents to talk about their children”.

  Today one of her favorite products is Huggable Hangers. The thin, space-saving inventions are the most successful gadget(器具)ever sold on HSN, with 100 million hanging out there in closets across the country. Of course, you couldn’t possibly sell hangers on TV.

(1)What would be the best title for the passage?

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A.There is going to be a better way

B.A woman invented the self-wringing mop

C.An ordinary woman sells her invention on TV

D.Women can all achieve remarkable success

(2)What does the underlined sentence “the phones went crazy” (in Paragraph 6) mean?

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A.Many people made calls to say they were mad.

B.There were lots of calls to order the new mop.

C.Many people were mad to see me on TV.

D.The telephone broke down at my home.

(3)Which is the correct order of the following events?

a.Mangano invented the most popular Huggable Hangers.

b.Mangano was tired of mopping the floor.

c.Mangano designed a self-wringing mop.

d.Mangano was ever worried about how to pay the bills.

e.Mangano did an on-camera demonstration to sell her mops.

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A.a-b-c-d-e
B.b-d-c-e-a
C.d-b-c-e-a
D.e-a-c-d-b

(4)What conclusion can be made from the story?

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A.Women can invent household tools because they often do housework.

B.Mangano treated her household inventions as she treated her children.

C.Mangano used to lie in bed and think of how to invent household tools.

D.One can make life better through work though it is sometimes hard.

短文改错。
     此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右
边的横线上画一个勾;如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:
此行多一个词:把多余的词作斜线(\)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。
此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号,在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。
此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。
注意:原行没有错的不要改。
     Nearly a week passed after the girl was able to explain
what happened to her. One afternoon she set out from the
coast in a small boat and were caught in a storm. Towards
evening, the boat struck a rock but the girl jumped into the
sea. Then she swam to the shore after spend the whole night
in the water. During that time she covered the distance of eight
miles. Early in next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew
she was near the shore. In arriving at the shore, she struggled
towards the light she had seen. That was that she remembered.
When she woke up a day later, she found her in hospital.
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短文改错(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边的横线上画一个勾(∨);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:

此行多一个词:把多余的词作斜线(\)划掉,在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词:在错的词下划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

注意:原行没有错的不要改。

Nearly a week passed after the girl was able to explain

what happened to her. One afternoon she set out from the

coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards

evening, the boat struck a rock but the girl jumped into the

sea. Then she swam to the shore after spend the whole night

in the water. During that time she covered the distance of eight

miles. Early in next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew

she was near the shore. In arriving at the shore, she struggled

towards the light she had seen. That was that she remembered.

When she woke up a day later, she found her in hospital.

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